I’m using Linux Manjaro KDE. I’ve followed the steps for switching to dark mode, and it’s working flawlessly, except for one thing. The ribbon toolbar only switches half the toolbar to dark mode. Can’t figure out why. I’ve attached a screenshot. This has been a problem for some time now. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I know this has been a problem for some time. Has this never been addressed?
Developers are aware of the issue and working on it. However, there one thing you can do: don’t use the ribbon interface as it encourages a direct formatting approach inherited from M$ Word. Writer has a much better philosophy: styles. If you design a consistent set of styles (built-in ones are an excellent starting point), you’ll no longer need toolbars except for infrequent actions. I mean all style categories, notably those Word have no equivalent for: character, page, frame and list.
And, above all, save native .odt.
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Thank you for your input. Hopefully the developers will come up with a solution soon. Although your solution may be good for some, for me, I work in a structure (the law) that mandates MS, therefore, I have no choice but to work within those confines. .ODT is simply not an option for me.
I’ve spoken to IT folks who seem to think this would be a fairly simple, and relatively quick fix. It’s just a matter of this becoming a priority for the developers
You are already breaking the rules of those structures by working with LibreOffice instead of MS Office. Be aware that it’s in the interest of Microsoft to make their product as incompatible as they can to force people to buy their software instead of something else. There will always be incompatibilities, however slight. Long-time users and advocates of OpenOffice and LibreOffice have always given the very sound advice that if you have to work professionally with people using MS Office, you should use MS Office to save time solving incompatibilities that are the result of converting between the internal odt format of LO and the external doc(x). Every time that you open a document saved in the doc(x) format, it will be converted to the odt format because that’s the format that LibreOffice works with. Over time, your documents can get seriously messed up. If you continue to work with LibreOffice, do save your work in the odt format, and when you have to submit it in doc or docx format, save a copy in that format, and continue to edit the original.
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